# ZARP is Now Live on IFÁ Labs

*Why It Matters.*

By [IFÁ LABS](https://paragraph.com/@if-labs) · 2026-04-27

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**Why IFÁ Labs?**
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The core insight behind IFÁ Labs is simple:

IFÁ Labs provides reliable, auditable onchain price feeds for RWA especially in emerging markets - so developers can build the financial products their users actually need. On top of that, we're building an oracle-based swap protocol engineered specifically for stablecoin-to-stablecoin transactions: low slippage, price stability, no impermanent loss.

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**Why ZARP?**
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ZARP is a South African Rand-backed stablecoin - and the South African Rand is the most traded currency on the African continent. South Africa has one of the most mature financial ecosystems in Africa, with deep capital markets, a large crypto-native population, and growing stablecoin adoption driven by the need to hedge against rand volatility.

For builders operating in the African DeFi space, ZARP is not optional - it's foundational. For insstance, a cross-border payment infrastructure connecting South Africa and the rest of the world needs a reliable, verifiable price feed for ZARP onchain.

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**What This Integration Unlocks**
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Adding ZARP to IFÁ Labs' oracle infrastructure isn't just a product update. It's a building block - one that expands a whole class of use cases:

**Cross-Border Payments** - Imagine a payment app that lets a merchant in Lagos receive settlement in cNGN while their supplier in Cape Town gets paid in ZARP, with real-time oracle pricing governing the swap. That's not a whitepaper idea. That's something builders can now start building.

**DeFi Composability** - Lending, borrowing, and yield protocols can now use ZARP as a verified collateral asset with a trustless price feed. This is exactly the kind of DeFi composability that we unlock, not afterthoughts.

**Remittances** - The Nigeria-South Africa corridor is one of the most active remittance routes on the continent. Stablecoin-native remittance apps can now route ZARP/cNGN flows with price certainty, without relying on offchain sources or centralized intermediaries.

**Stablecoin Wallets & Exchanges** - Any product that holds or swaps ZARP now has access to a reliable, onchain-native price feed to power accurate valuations and settlement..

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**What's Next**
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ZARP joins a growing list of supported assets on IFÁ Labs - including cNGN, BRZ, USDC, USDT etc. Each new asset brings us closer to a world where any stablecoin, from any market, can be priced, swapped, and settled onchain without compromise.

If you're a builder working with ZARP - or building anything in the Southern African DeFi space - we'd love to talk.

**Let's build the infrastructure Africa deserves.**

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*Originally published on [IFÁ LABS](https://paragraph.com/@if-labs/zarp-is-now-live-on-ifa-labs)*